Are gun rights women’s rights? Antonia Okafor Cover offers a feminist argument for gun ownership

Most feminists don’t think of guns as a means to empower women — rather, we tend to see them as a danger. Antonia Okafor Cover, the founder and president of EMPOWERED, an American non-profit, sees things differently. Antonia is the National Director of Women’s Outreach and a national spokesperson for Gun Owners of America. She founded EMPOWERED in order to educate, train, and equip young women in the use of firearms for protection on college campuses, as well as to help women advocate for their Second Amendment rights.

In this episode, I speak with Antonia about her life, politics, and why she decided to take up arms.

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Are gun rights women’s rights? Antonia Okafor Cover offers a feminist argument for gun ownership
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Meghan Murphy

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Meghan Murphy is a freelance writer and journalist from Vancouver, BC. She has been podcasting and writing about feminism since 2010 and has published work in numerous national and international publications, including The Spectator, UnHerd, Quillette, the CBC, New Statesman, Vice, Al Jazeera, The Globe and Mail, and more. Meghan completed a Masters degree in the department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University in 2012 and is now exiled in Mexico with her very photogenic dog.